[talk-au] Local Government Areas without Councils

[Warin]

On 24-Dec-16 04:40 PM, Andrew Davidson wrote:
> On 23/12/16 09:50, cleary wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> I suggest a simple one-word change in the wiki so that Level 6
>> administrative boundaries in Australia would read "Local Government Area
>> Border (e.g Shire/Council)" replacing "Local Government Authority Border
>> (e.g Shire/Council)" clarifying that we map the area rather than the
>> form of administration in the area.
>>
>
> I completely agree with this proposed change. It will clarify exactly 
> what is supposed to be represented by an admin_level 6 boundary.
>
> In NSW the term "local government area" is used in a number of pieces 
> of legislation because different rules apply if you are in a local 
> government area than if you are not. As a result there is a clear and 
> unambiguous definition of what is and what is not a local government 
> area.

Err does this mean there are areas in NSW that have no 'local government 
area'?
Or did you mean '/"local government area" is used in a number of pieces 
of legislation because different rules apply if you are in a local 
government area or another local government area/' ?
>
> SA doesn't use the term in their legislation but there is a LGA areas 
> dataset available from data.sa.gov.au that defines for each part of SA 
> whether or not it is a local government area.
>
> Hopefully this will stop the rather tedious debate about what exactly 
> constitutes a local government authority.

Personally I would want to get away from the hair splitting and get back 
to mapping.
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